Adult Swim’s Dana Snyder and FRED’s Ken Plume set out to have a literate conversation between two pals, but inevitably devolve into a verbal, and funny, free-for-all full of bickering, infighting, and the special kind of male bonding that comes from conflict expressed through the podcast medium. This, dear friends, is the online experience!

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Much of the podcast talks about The Snydes, a rip off of the Smurfs where every character would be a tiny blue Dana... except for Plumegamel.

Sadly, that is not the movie in theaters today.

Anyhoo, here are some retro commercials that shows that the world was even more saturated with Smurfs in the 80s.

First up is this commercial for the Smurf Power Cycle and other Smurf vehicles. It's a bit odd. First Smurfette runs in holding some kind of VHS tape to show the 'Smurfs Test Track' where products are "tested on real kids". Then comes my favorite line ever...

"IT'S REALLY POPPIN'!"

Next is a commercial for Smurf Yogurt... or lobster and pickles. It's hard to tell.

This commercial is for a Smurf's Christmas album that is as awful as you can imagine:

Sunday, July 24, 2011

I put together this video with audio clips from Ken PD Snydecast 1-10. Now you can relive the miserable audio from episodes 1 & 2, the John Popper/Paul Prudhomme debate, the ride on It's a Small World, Ken's love of Mr. Holland's Opus, The Laurel & Hardy Museum photo and more!Enjoy!

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Today is opening day for Run For Your Wife at the Lyceum Theatre in Arrow Rock, MO. The show runs until July 30.

If you are lucky enough to be there in Arrow Rock seeing Dana play Stanley in the show you have no need for any further entertainment today. In fact, if I were you, I would sit in a darkened room for the other hours of the day.

Seriously. You can be over entertained. Your face may fall off. Back away from the website slowly.

For the rest of us, here is a classic episode of Phil Silvers' Sgt. Bilko. In this episode Sgt. Ritzik's wife leaves him and it's up to Bilko to save the marriage:

In this comedy about bigamy, a dull man turns out to have a hyperactive romantic life. That is the beginning and the slowly approached end of the evening's tomfoolery. John Smith, a London taxi driver, maintains two separate households, one in Wimbledon, the other a few minutes away in Streatham. Because of an accident too complicated to explain, his worlds collide, and the police are called in to investigate.

With increasing ineptitude, the taxi driver tries to keep one wife from learning about the other. To extend his comedy, Mr. Cooney uses every subterfuge in the joke book, including the pretense of his being homosexual. Whenever possible, the play makes fun of stereotypes (dumb cops, swishy gays and prefeminist women who think only of getting their man into bed).

Gas up the car and get to Missouri and see the show!
Be sure to check out the Lyceum Theatre website for more details.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

A photo of Dana holding the ladies is mentioned... take a look:This photo appears on the starsofaquateen.com site with the caption: In happier times, with his twin ex-wives (surgically separated in 2004)

And since we are talking about The Diamond Sisters, check out this video:Take a look:

One of the most fun scenes in The Blues Brothers takes place in the Dixie Square Mall. The mall had closed down and was redressed making it a remarkable filming location.

Here is a neat behind the scenes look at the filming of the scene... it's like 4 minutes long and for some reason is uploaded as 4 separate parts:

Amazingly the abandoned mall is still (somewhat) standing.

There are some interesting videos showing the decay of the mall. I really like this one:

BTW early in the clip you see a juxtaposition of these two photos:

The man in the pictures is stunt man Gary McLarty, the left shot is from Blues Brothers and the inset shot on the right is from when he testified in the Robert Blake trial that Blake had tried to hire him to kill his wife.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume & Molly Lewis 4 is the usually mixture of silliness, sincerity and actual interview stuff. Ken describes the episode "...In this episode, I have another chat with musician, geek, and internet sensation Molly Lewis about Paula Deen, butter, snorting, trouble, bells, furniture, and trombones."

Arrowrock —
The Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre's 51st Season continues with Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic, The Sound of Music, opening on July 6 with fourteen performances through July 17.

Based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, The Sound of Music features a lush score filled with unforgettable songs such as, "The Sound of Music", "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" and "Do-Re-Mi".

The Sound of Music was the final collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and has garnered numerous honors, including five Tony Awards for the original 1959 Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, and five Academy Awards for the 1965 film adaptation, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

Director, Peter Reynolds, says, "We have been appreciating the consummate skill of the composers of The Sound of Music whose contributions changed musical theater forever, and focusing our energies on Rodgers and Hammerstein's sage advice: 'mean it from the bottom of your heart, and say what is on your mind as carefully, as clearly and beautifully as you can.'"

When the irrepressible novice, Maria, proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval Captain. Her unorthodox approach quickly wins over the children but conflicts with the structure that the Captain insists upon.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Featured guests include actors and voice actors for many beloved films and TV shows like Transformers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Tron. This year’s special guest is Cary Elwes, who brought a surprising amount of energy and appreciation for all the fans who’ve seen him in movies such as the Princess Bride and the modern horror movie Saw. Elwes was not the only genuinely happy guest, as voice actor Dana Snyder actually brought a tween fan on stage to help him get through his improvised appearance, it was as heart warming as it was comedic.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Back in 2008 KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #64 was released talking quite a bit about The Little Rascals.The Little Rascals series (aka Our Gang) was a comedy series that ran from the early 1920s to the late 1930s.